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• Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

  Barbara Kruger

  Differences, Doubt, Belief

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• [Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Climate, Campaigns, Kind

  "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?" by Simon Shuster, content.time.com. August 2, 2010.

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• You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Vanity, Fiction

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “The David Foster Wallace Reader”, Hachette UK

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• You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

  Christopher Moore

  Differences, Trying, Morality

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

  Suzanne Collins

  Plant

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Heart, Fire

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• Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

  Terry Pratchett

  Rap, What Matters, People

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Years, Challenges

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

  C.C. Hunter

  Sleep, Ducks, Smell

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• I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello—and it’s magical—we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone—and it’s magical—we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.

  Taylor Swift

  Goodbye, Falling In Love, Kissing

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• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Powerful, Science, Tools

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

  Joel Edgerton

  Attitude, Tree, Way

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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• I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all. Funerals were tricky like that. And life, I guess. The important parts you blocked out altogether, but the random, slanted moments haunted you, replaying over and over in your mind.

  Kami Garcia

  Believe, Yesterday, Funeral

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• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Ungrateful, Feelings

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.197, A&C Black

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• (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

  e. e. cummings

  E. E. Cummings (2007). “Selected Poems”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

  Brian Cox

  Beautiful, Confused, Complicated

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• Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

  Anne Lamott

  Loss, People, Alive

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• Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Growing Up, World, Littles

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.114, Hamilton Books

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• Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

  Ewan McGregor

  Deals, Personal Life

  "New Again: Ewan McGregor". Interview with Todd Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

  David Nabarro

  Government, People, Challenges

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• It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Yield, Energy

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Positive, Zero, Health

  "P.J. O'Rourke Takes On 'The Wealth of Nations'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  "Tori Amos’ ‘Night Of Hunters’ Examines Broken Relationship". Interview with Deborah Finding, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.

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• Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

  Brian Herbert

  Flower, Opportunity, Tiny

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.135, Macmillan

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